CRTC denies Bell’s bid to take over Astral; finds deal to be counter to public interest OTTAWA-GATINEAU, October 18, 2012 – Today, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) denied BCE’s application to acquire control of Astral Media’s television and radio services because it is not in the public interest. Astral Media operates 84 radio stations and 20 pay and
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When I started working with the Internet, I had only one option – the Mosaic Browser. Then came Netscape which seemed like a leap to me at the time. Looking back it really has been a long time and the changes to not only how pages are built, but the whole advent of CSS, HTML5 and even Flash (could it
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Nothing pisses me off more than unexpected rudeness. The person in front of me buying a scratch and win, then scratching it then ordering another – its not a casino bud. Or how about my nice surprise of having my system halt just because I had not changed my home page from apple.com on Safari. I like using a Mac,
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I don’t think I need to see the numbers to show me that Pinterest is most popular with women who focus on design and fashion. Zappos, Amazon owned eclothier, has launched a new service callled PinPointing. Basically they segment the service in two ways. You can look at the Pinterest users pins, or enter a username such as yourself. Either
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Bell Media is becoming a bit to omnipresent in our lives. And there is growing concern as to how much media is controlled by one company. Rick Mercer helps to show how you can swab the takeover to find out if Bell’s expanding reach has taken its effect. . From Wikipedia: Bell Media’s largest division is Bell Media Television, which
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When I log into this blog, I am presented by a qualifier developed by Sweet Captcha which also stops auto spamming of this blog. Since this is a plug to the WordPress CMS, I am not alone in using this clever and fun qualifier. Yesterday however, I was not able to login to post a new entry. Without the
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Adobe® Edge is a new web motion and interaction design tool that allows designers to bring animated content to websites, using web standards like HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3. Adobe re-branded their as yet to be publicly released Edge as Edge Animate. Hmm I think that might have been to make people aware that it is an animation tool, not
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Smartpress.com conducted a survey to aggregate the opinion of dozens of the best and most-talented graphic designers in the industry. The results were turned into a success factors/guide document in form of an infographic. This infographic reveals what the graphic design pros place emphasis and importance on. Whether you’re starting out in the field of design or you’re a seasoned
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Today I am just getting back from vacation, but received this in my inbox. I thought it important enough to share with you all. Last year’s holiday shopping gave birth to “couch commerce” shoppers—people using tablets as their preferred device for shopping. Because of this, online retailers are under pressure to ensure that their web properties are optimized for all
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Here is an opportunity you should take advantage of. Data mining and sifter comScore is providing free data snacks around the Games, to keep the industry up-to-date. Check back every day for an updated graphic showing global online and mobile behavioural patterns and how these might be affected by one of the biggest sporting events in the world. Click
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